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Students recognized at the RHIC/AGS Users' meeting
Matt Nguyen took top honors by winning the Thesis Award and presented his work at the meeting. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/Fri/RHICAGS_FlashTalk_MAN.pdf∞ Torsten Dahms received an honorable mention, also presenting the work in a talk. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/Fri/tdahms_rhicags2009.pdf∞ Megan Connors was elected the to the Users' Executive Council as a student/postdoc representative, and Jiangyong Jia was elected to the UEC. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/Fri/departing_new_members_2009.pps∞
2009-08-30 11:56:26 by MainOffice

Students recognized at the RHIC/AGS Users' meeting

Matt Nguyen took top honors by winning the Thesis Award and presented his work at the meeting. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/Fri/RHICAGS_FlashTalk_MAN.pdf∞

Torsten Dahms received an honorable mention, also presenting the work in a talk. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/Fri/tdahms_rhicags2009.pdf∞

Megan Connors was elected the to the Users' Executive Council as a student/postdoc representative, and Jiangyong Jia was elected to the UEC. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic_ags/users_meeting/Agenda/Fri/departing_new_members_2009.pps∞

2009-08-30 11:56:26 by MainOffice

Two students recognized from the HEP Group
Postdoc Junjie Zhu won the 2009 Tollestrup Award for the outstanding postdoc working at Fermilab. Given that there are probably 200 or so postdocs working at Fermilab, this is no mean feat! He received the award and gave a talk on the W boson mass measurement at the June 2009 Annual Users Meeting -- a widely attended workshop held at Fermilab each year. The award focussed not only on Junjie's leadership in making the W boson mass measurement, but also on a set of other key studies of the electroweak interaction. Junjie works with Profs Hobbs, McCarthy and Grannis. Graduate student Emanuel Strauss was selected to give one of two graduate student talks at the Annual Users Meeting in Fermilab. Emanuel has done not one but two outstanding analyses as a key contributor to the first discovery of the process in which a pair of Z bosons are created in hadronic collisions, and as the main analyzer of the search for the Higgs boson in association with a Z boson. He gave his talk on the former topic, but won the outstanding poster award at the Users meeting for the description of that latter. Emanuel will get his Ph.D. this summer and take a postdoc with SLAC.
2009-08-30 11:54:28 by MainOffice

Two students recognized from the HEP Group

Postdoc Junjie Zhu won the 2009 Tollestrup Award for the outstanding postdoc working at Fermilab.

Given that there are probably 200 or so postdocs working at Fermilab, this is no mean feat! He received the award and gave a talk on the W boson mass measurement at the June 2009 Annual Users Meeting -- a widely attended workshop held at Fermilab each year. The award focussed not only on Junjie's leadership in making the W boson mass measurement, but also on a set of other key studies of the electroweak interaction. Junjie works with Profs Hobbs, McCarthy and Grannis.

Graduate student Emanuel Strauss was selected to give one of two graduate student talks at the Annual Users Meeting in Fermilab.

Emanuel has done not one but two outstanding analyses as a key contributor to the first discovery of the process in which a pair of Z bosons are created in hadronic collisions, and as the main analyzer of the search for the Higgs boson in association with a Z boson. He gave his talk on the former topic, but won the outstanding poster award at the Users meeting for the description of that latter. Emanuel will get his Ph.D. this summer and take a postdoc with SLAC.

2009-08-30 11:54:28 by MainOffice

Honorary doctoral degree to Paul Grannis
Paul Grannis has recently been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Ohio University. Paul received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and he came to Stony Brook in 1966. He had guest appointments at Fermilab, CERN, the Rutherford Laboratory, and the University College London. Most recently he served at the DOE Office of Science in Washington, D.C. As spokesman for the D0 experiment in Fermilab from 1983 to 1993, and co-spokesman from 1993 to 1996, he led the D0 experiment from its inception to the discovery of the top quark in 1995. He is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society. Paul was Chairman of the Department and retired as Distinguished Professor in 2006. He continues to be active as Research Professor.
2009-08-30 11:51:20 by MainOffice

Honorary doctoral degree to Paul Grannis

Paul Grannis has recently been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Ohio University.

Paul received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and he came to Stony Brook in 1966. He had guest appointments at Fermilab, CERN, the Rutherford Laboratory, and the University College London. Most recently he served at the DOE Office of Science in Washington, D.C. As spokesman for the D0 experiment in Fermilab from 1983 to 1993, and co-spokesman from 1993 to 1996, he led the D0 experiment from its inception to the discovery of the top quark in 1995. He is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society. Paul was Chairman of the Department and retired as Distinguished Professor in 2006. He continues to be active as Research Professor.

2009-08-30 11:51:20 by MainOffice

New GPD
Welcome to Jac Verbaarschot, who kindly agreed to serve as Graduate Program Director. Jac has been Ph.D. advisor to many students, and instructor of numerous graduate courses. He served as Chair of the Admissions Committee, and recently he has been elected to be the Chair of the Graduate Council, the advisory body of the Graduate School. We all look forward to work with him.
2009-08-30 11:48:30 by MainOffice

NYCCS talks
As many of you know, the search for the director of the NYCCS (http://www.newyorkccs.org/index.shtml∞) is renewed. The Department is represented on the search committee by Kostya Likharev and Alan Calder. Two candidates will visit at the end of August and early September: Peter Nugent and Karin Rabe. (Please note that the time of the visit was not determined by us.) Peter is an astronomer, and one of Karin's main interests is condensed matter theory. The natural academic home for both of them is the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Peter Nugent was colloquium speaker last year (see his talk at http://www.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/movies/physics/nugent_col110408_ref.mov∞. ). He is also going to give a Special Seminar on Friday, August 28, 3:30 PM, in ESS Bldg., RM 450. (This is right before the Chair's Keg.) Karin Rabe will give a Special Colloquium on September 1, the second day of classes. Normally we do not have Colloquium this early in the Semester, but I hope you can still come. The schedule of the visits is posted at http://chair.physics.sunysb.edu/∞ - follow the links under "Temporary postings". The CV of these candidates is available in Pam's office. We expect visit by a third candidate for this position, Jerry Bernholc, tentatively scheduled for mid-September.
2009-08-30 11:47:07 by MainOffice

NYCCS talks

As many of you know, the search for the director of the NYCCS (http://www.newyorkccs.org/index.shtml∞) is renewed. The Department is represented on the search committee by Kostya Likharev and Alan Calder.

Two candidates will visit at the end of August and early September: Peter Nugent and Karin Rabe. (Please note that the time of the visit was not determined by us.) Peter is an astronomer, and one of Karin's main interests is condensed matter theory. The natural academic home for both of them is the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Peter Nugent was colloquium speaker last year (see his talk at http://www.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/movies/physics/nugent_col110408_ref.mov∞. ). He is also going to give a Special Seminar on Friday, August 28, 3:30 PM, in ESS Bldg., RM 450. (This is right before the Chair's Keg.)

Karin Rabe will give a Special Colloquium on September 1, the second day of classes. Normally we do not have Colloquium this early in the Semester, but I hope you can still come.

The schedule of the visits is posted at http://chair.physics.sunysb.edu/∞ - follow the links under "Temporary postings". The CV of these candidates is available in Pam's office.

We expect visit by a third candidate for this position, Jerry Bernholc, tentatively scheduled for mid-September.

2009-08-30 11:47:07 by MainOffice

Adjunct Professor Ilan Ben-Zvi elevated to IEEE fellow
Ilan Ben-Zvi, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor in our Department, has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow: "for leadership in superconducting accelerators, high brightness electron sources and free electron lasers."
2009-03-13 13:47:46 by MainOffice

Distinguished Professor Kostya Likharev elevated to IEEE fellow
Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow. The IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professor Kostya Likharev to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2009, with the following citation: "for contributions to superconducting digital electronics and single-electron tunneling devices ."
2009-03-13 13:44:32 by MainOffice

Distinguished Professor Kostya Likharev elevated to IEEE fellow

Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow. The IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professor Kostya Likharev to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2009, with the following citation:

"for contributions to superconducting digital electronics and single-electron tunneling devices ."

2009-03-13 13:44:32 by MainOffice

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